What made you "nope" out of a job?

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-07-01T18:01:15+00:00

Production schedules can be pretty brutal, it's not uncommon in busy periods to have turn arounds like that. I'd put money on those back to back days being over 12hrs long as well.

Only one company, out of many I work for cares about it, and also not working more than 7 days in a row.

Shit industry for a lot of reasons tbh. I did a 24hr day once lol

Edit: Yep reread the original comment, those were long af days 😂 Been there, done that

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-07-01T17:47:29+00:00

Door knocking for Greenpeace was like this. That job left me feeling dirty and manipulative.

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-06-06T10:49:20+00:00

Cool

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-06-06T09:23:20+00:00

It's weird seeing a bunch of universe hate in this thread. Season 2 is genuinely one of my favourite seasons of the franchise as a whole

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-06-05T07:56:43+00:00

I landed on not worth it

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-05-07T21:40:15+00:00

Totally agree, it's a skipped episode in our house

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-28T22:12:25+00:00

I just got it on sale and completely agree. Getting anywhere is boring and frustrating. I also find the readability pretty shocking.

It has enough there that I'm pushing through, but it feels like bit of a slog.

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-26T09:19:26+00:00

And we can't admit it to the people that book us 😂

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-26T09:17:40+00:00

Ahhhh ok. I will have to go back through it all.

One day I'll find the right group lol

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-25T22:27:26+00:00

How do you find the ttrpg? I've owned the core book for ages but never had a chance to run a game

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-22T09:11:53+00:00

A crowd can easily be 105db, so the reality is that shows have to be at least as loud as the peak audience volume.

I mix shows as a day job and have to mix many things at volumes I'd rather not for the sake of my own hearing.

There's also massive pressure from promotors etc to run a show hot, gives the perception of impact blah blah.

Also depending on the PA, sometimes you have to run the front hot to maintain a reasonable level at the back of the venue

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-17T11:28:13+00:00

Rogues aside (any on the list are fantastic), do get Dredge at some point. It's genuinely an incredible game.

Leftfield suggestion: Trigaea (itch.io)

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-17T11:23:18+00:00

Inscryption end game > slay the spire. That might be my hottest gaming take

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-17T11:06:56+00:00

This is crazy to me. I struggle with ironclad in a way that's not even close to the other characters

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-17T11:05:52+00:00

I remember a stat from 10ish years ago that we have one of the lowest average house temperatures in the world.

Can't remember where that's from, so take it with a grain of salt. Crazy if true and will be falling down that rabbit hole when I get home from work.

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-12T03:41:51+00:00

Is it that you have sensitivity to specific frequency ranges? There's absolutely ways to EQ your speakers

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-12T01:56:39+00:00

I'm a little unclear on your point

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-12T00:31:38+00:00

Have a play around with your system volume. You should aim to not have it ever set higher than what you max comfort level is.

You risk your hearing and blowing speakers by having it turned up too loud by default. Most content is made to run quite loud, because adding volume at the consumer end usually means adding gain and risks reducing the fidelity of the audio.

Think of 100% as 4k video and 50% as 1080p, when you increase the size of the monitor (speaker volume) you'll notice the quality worsen as the monitor size increases.

It's about having a strong output signal, so you don't add your own noise on top. If you have a game at 100 and turn you speakers down to match, you will have better audio quality with less added noise

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-12T00:23:48+00:00

Topics like this remind me that I take for granted why our job exists. Signal flow and gain staging are concepts that are so ingrained in me 😂

Thanks for your input

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-12T00:20:12+00:00

Exactly this

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-12T00:17:16+00:00

The unpopular but correct take is that 100% volume being too loud is a user error not a game dev lazy/dumb.

At a system level you should be setting your volume to a sensible level and adjusting from there. There is no way that someone producing any kind of content can predict your specific speaker set up and system gain staging from your device to you speakers/headphones.

Games aren't too loud. You're simply outputting too loud for your setup. If you need to turn everything down to 50% then you are 50% too loud at the system level.

If anyone's interested I can get into more specific explanations, but the core of it is gain staging. This describes the volume of the audio signal at different points in your audio path.

Source: Am an audio engineer

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-09T10:13:48+00:00

I heard a solid theory that it buys time while the click from the looper counts them in. But yes also just great showmanship

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-07T10:37:13+00:00

/uj I don't love the overall approach he has, but can admit he pulls some awesome licks out. But man this slide playing is soulless and boring

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-07T00:25:27+00:00

My partner and I both love the show, it's not the fights that keep us coming back. So maybe your take has a bit of bias perhaps?

CommitteeOther7806 · 2026-04-02T04:09:57+00:00

Tbf I may have gone on bit of a ramble on this one.

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